How to set up crypto price alerts in Discord

Price alerts in Discord make sense when a whole community is watching the same coins: one ping in the right channel replaces twenty people refreshing a chart. Here's how to set them up so they stay useful instead of noisy.

Your options

• Exchange or portfolio apps alert you personally on your phone. They're good for you, but not for a community.
• Charting platforms such as TradingView can send alerts to a Discord webhook. That's flexible, but webhook alerts need a paid plan there, and someone has to maintain them.
• A Discord bot lets members create their own alerts with slash commands and pings them in the channel. It's the simplest option for a server.

Setting up alerts with PulseWatch

PulseWatch is our free alert bot. It covers more than 15,000 coins using CoinGecko data and checks prices every 60 seconds.

1. Add the bot from the PulseWatch page. It only needs View Channels, Send Messages and Embed Links.
2. Create an alert in any channel where it can post:
   /alert add BTC above 100000
   PulseWatch pings you in that channel when the price crosses your level.
3. Manage your alerts with /alert list and /alert remove id. Each alert fires once and then removes itself, so your list doesn't fill up with stale levels.
4. Optional: one alerts channel. On the dashboard, a server admin can send every alert to a single channel, so general chat stays clean.

Percentage moves and price feeds

Fixed levels are good for "tell me when ETH hits $5,000". For volatile markets, two other tools help:

• % move alerts fire when a coin moves by a percentage, for example SOL up or down 5% in 24 hours. These are a Premium feature.
• Auto-posting price feeds post a compact price board for a list of coins to a channel on a schedule. Premium includes up to 5 feeds.

Tips for alerts people actually read

• Pick the right coin. Many tickers are shared by several tokens. If a symbol is ambiguous, type the full coin name or its CoinGecko ID (for example pyth-network), then check the coin name in the confirmation.
• Use levels that mean something, such as round numbers, previous highs or your own entry, rather than tiny moves that fire every hour.
• Keep alerts in one channel for busy servers, and mute it for people who don't trade.
• Don't rely on alerts for anything critical. Data comes from third-party APIs and can be delayed, and a 60-second check interval isn't designed for liquidation-level timing.

Limits

Each member can have 10 alerts on the free tier, 25 for 12 hours after voting for the bot, and 100 when the server has Premium. Portfolio lookups with /portfolio are free and read-only: you paste a public address and never connect a wallet.